Mark Knowles > 10-04-2019, 01:00 PM
-JKP- > 10-04-2019, 01:19 PM
Mark Knowles > 10-04-2019, 06:03 PM
Anton > 10-04-2019, 06:13 PM
Quote:What is a good (not too jargonistic) term for a group of characters that are treated as a unit?
-JKP- > 11-04-2019, 02:17 AM
(10-04-2019, 06:03 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
I do have other alternative ideas such as things like positional homophonic substitution .i.e. letters are represented with one unit or unit block at the start of a word and with another unit or unit block at the end of a word. If that makes any sense.
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MarcoP > 11-04-2019, 07:08 AM
(10-04-2019, 12:37 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The similarities to diplomatic ciphers that look very likely to me are:
1) Repeated words being noise i.e. nulls
Mark Knowles > 11-04-2019, 10:05 AM
Mark Knowles > 11-04-2019, 10:28 AM
-JKP- > 11-04-2019, 11:47 AM
Quote: Mark: JKP: It seems to me that there must be a greater number of blocks than there are characters.
i.e. two characters $ and &
four distinct two character long blocks
$&
&$
$$
&&
three characters -> 27 distinct three character long blocks
In other words when you start using blocks instead of individual characters the size of the equivalent character set possible mappings hugely increases.
So you may run of characters to represent the alphabet, but you don't run out of blocks to represent the alphabet, at all, in fact you have more than enough.
Mark Knowles > 11-04-2019, 12:36 PM